Gorilla Perfume - Solid Perfume Version

Northern Lights Soap

Solid Shampoo Bars

So I'm here to share my beauty obsession: Lush, which is an amazing all natural cosmetics/beauty supplies company. My personal belief is that everyone should pay good money for their cosmetics, there is nothing more important then your skin. It absorbs everything so why would you want to put chemicals and preservatives on it when you could instead for a decent price pay to apply all natural products on your precious body. I can honestly say that Lush hair products have saved my hair, a few months ago; despite all my efforts, my hair was constantly left looking greasy. Not a great look, especially considering the one thing I always loved about myself no matter what was my hair. Finally one day desperate to find ANYTHING that would work, I walked to my local lush and picked up a bottle of their 'I Love Juicy' shampoo, and my addiction was formed. From there I began to purchase their soaps (my skin has never smelt or felt softer), their face scrubs (wow does my face feel amazing!) and I am DYING to get my hands on a tube of their Karma Solid Perfume. I highly suggest checking their stuff out, I promise you will not regret a single penny spent there!

xx Stephanie Lynne 

My apologies, I know last week I said was the official start of my weekly collages (mood boards); unfortunately I stumbled into some personal drama over the last week, and am just now really getting the ideas now for a great piece. I knew I could have put something together during the chaos but I was also aware it wouldn't be as close to my heart or as good as it could be. So bear with me an extra few days. And I promise you will see a new piece of work soon. 

(I'm actually super pumped about his board, I just collected the majority of the images that will be used and they work beautifully!)

xx Stephanie Lynne

A few days ago the boy and I were chatting about different natural phanminons we had learned about and were completely facinated by. This was his favorite. I finally got around to watching the video just a little bit ago and I'm compltely blow away. The Salton Sea is truly one of the most breath taking places I've ever had the pleasure to learn about and is now officially on my list of places to see before I die.
And if you happen to be wondering why is gods name I'm posting this on my fashion blog? Well because I'm so inspired by it! OF COURSE! And anything inspiring and enlightening is worth sharing!! 

xx Stephanie Lynne

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www.target.com

So you guys may or may not know this about me, but my ultimate end goal is to own my own boutique. I'm honestly obsessed with the idea, I'm constantly collecting tid bits of information about owning such a store. I just love the retail space, the whole idea that walking into store creates this world this entire mood that makes or breaks the reason you want to shop there. Anyway this past week I read an amazing article, this year Target is pairing up with certain specialty boutiques from across the nation instead of designers! Each boutique is going to do just what the designers have done in the past, work with the popular main stream store to create a collection that reflects their store and the target costumer so that their boutiques mood/feeling/expression can be captured by a larger audiance. How amazing is that seriously? It just gets me so excited to have my own store and hopefully one day similar oppertunities. Also it excites me that target is going to help revive the love and the specialty that is the small boutique. 

(speaking of boutiques, shout out to one of my favorites and my former place of work, Condor!)

(Logo not pictured but also partnering with Target: Private House, Cos Bar)

xx Stephanie Lynne

Detail of H&M black satin blouse

Detail of H&M black satin blouse

Scarf gifted to me from a friend after his trip to France!

So today is the start of something I'm going to be doing weekly, at least for now hopefully even more often as time moves on. As you know from reading my blog I make lots of mood boards in my free time. And I tend to post them on here. Well now they will be posted weekly, but they aren't going to be just done in photoshop, I've started doing some more by hand lately (not saying that there won't be ones done digitally too..) I just have well over a thousand magazine images I've collected over the years. Along with these mood boards I'm going to post a few select pieces from my wardrobe that match the mood of the board. I hope you enjoy! 

This weeks, the first, is an all black and white board. Sifting through my images I found an overwhelming amount of black and white. So I thought who doesn't love the beauty that is the black and white image? And vola! a board was born! 

xx Stephanie Lynne 

xx Stephanie Lynne

I realize the other day I made a post and mentioned my internship at Condor, but never have I actually spoke to you all about my experience there. So here goes some kind of summery to the best of my ability, of my wonderful time at Condor.

I found out about the internship because one of the employee's at condor took my trend spotting class during the spring semester and had a good relationship with our professor. So when Condor was in need of interns our professor was quick to let us know and I was just as quick to respond to their request. And after an interview with the lovely Kylie and a day to make sure I fit well at the store my internship had begun. Over all I spent almost the entirety of my semester helping out at Condor and I'm so thankful I did so. 

Working with a new company like Condor was an experience I will always cherish, because it is such a small store, I got to get my hands dirty in just about ever aspect of running a boutique. I worked with the inventory, worked to create a more organized system in our back stock, ran basic errands, helped customers and even got to learn how to merchandise a store. Merchandising the store I will openly admit was my favorite aspect, especially since I got to really understand just how important the layout of your product in a space can be, as well as how often you should change things up to make it feel fresh in the space. 

Overall I'm very thankful to my friends over at Condor for their time spent teaching me.

links:


www.shopcondor.com
www.facebook.com/shopcondor
www.shopcondor.tumblr.com

xx Stephanie Lynne

I had the wonderful opportunity to visit a graphic design company, based in my home town, last night. It was so inspiring to see the tools I learned to love in school being used in real life. To see everything I've really only ever talked about being put to use, I honestly couldn't stop running around the building taking pictures like a geek. I needed it last night, I was in need of that. For reason I can't really explain. Well maybe I can, I'm slowly getting some freelance work, and I'm blogging all the time, but currently I feel stuck, so seeing the world of art I love in a real world setting. I'm over sharing a little bit, but I do it in hopes that it will bring my readers closer to me. I hope you have all had a good monday! 

Worn to an interview, to ice skating and while baking. What up winter.

Just a quick apologies to anyone who has visited the site in the past day or so and seen the on going changes.  I hope it hasn't caused to much of a mess for you guys! Everything is sorting its self out now!

During my wonderful internship over at Condor, I had the chance to meet a designer that you should get to know and love because she's blowing up quickly. Her name is Ambika , some of you may be familiar with her bikini line she has, which has even been featured on the cover of sport illustrated. Her new line is friendly furs, which just like her bikini's are crocheted, and all the materials are from English angora bunnies. Condor actually happens to be home to one of said bunnies. I feel so honored to have met Ambika on more than one occasion she is such a wonderful free spirit and soul, and I'm so excited for all her success. She was even invited to show at a trade show; Capsule in the upcoming year. All of the above images are from her friends furs line, and the last image is actually my personal piece from the collection, a gift from Condor's owner at the end of my internship. And its one of my favorite pieces in my winter wardrobe.

Just trying to clear out my drafts! Found these shots of my outfits from the last few days of the semester. It was all about super easy and cute layers for finals week!

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I spent yesterday with the boy being a snow bunny. Learning to snow board that is, and well basically failing in every way you can imagine. But no worries I will ride again. I don't give up easily, if I want to learn it I will! So do to such a day spend in the wonderful snow, I'm posting the other mood board I spoke about making in my last post. When I sifted through all my recently saved photographs there were two very clear feelings I was being drawn too. The first, a more psychedelic and graphic feel seen in the last posts mood board, and then this feel.  Nostalgic feeling correct? You just want to out on a chic light weight long cream or white colored dress that is full of movement, a few hesitantly bright accessories and be transferred back in time. Or at least to a dinner party with close friends. So cheers to a new year and some new fashion!

Top: (from left) evert studio bracelet, amadasanft.tumblr, artsake.tumblr Center: (from left) thischickgotstyle.blogspot, fashiongonerogue.com, artsake.tumblr Bottom: st0ked.tumblr, weheartit.com

I was craving some inspiration so I sifted through all my most recent liked posts on tumblr and my most recently saved posts to my desktop. (wow I'm a crazy freak, I spend so much time on the computer saving images) If I had been near a scanner this would have been out of control, since my collection of magazine cut outs has grown so much in the past few weeks. But alas that was not the case. So here is one of the two mood boards I ended up pulling together. (I"ll post the other one soon) I ended up finding images of these naturalistic yet psychedelic colors and prints.  So beautiful and captivating right?? Alright well I'm going to get back to drawing up some logos for the sight! 

I hope you all had a happy and safe new year!!